“Some of the power has shifted from companies to people. Using social media tools (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc.) more individuals are creating semi-spontaneous 'groundswells' of opinions to which companies and other institutions are realizing they must respond. From marketing to consumers organizations are being pulled into engaging with individuals.” PeopleIndividualSocialRealizingCompanyOpinionMediaCreatingToolsOrganizationInstitutionsMarketingSocial MediaConsumersEtcSpontaneousEngagingConnectingBlogsWikis Author:Charlene Li
“We must reach out to villages even in scorching heat with temperature upto 44 C. We must ensure that no girl child remains illiterate. I request all the social institutions and the media world to create a joyous environment for education in the month of June (when schools re-open), an environment to encourage children to go to school. We will derive the satisfaction of having done a social good.” WorldChildrenDoneSchoolGirlSocialEducationEnvironmentMediaMonthsIndiaInstitutionsRemainsSatisfactionHeatVillageReach OutJuneTemperatureRequestJoyousIlliterateGood EducationSocial InstitutionsSocial GoodScorchingGirl Child Author:Narendra Modi
“Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership.” PeopleGovernmentEconomyMediaInstitutionsCoreRelateOpenness Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“As Christian feel the changing winds of political climate, the blasts against their values in the media, the exclusion of the Christian faith from educational institutions, they begin to sense the dangers of complacency and of pietistical world flight.” WorldFeelsChristianPoliticalValuesReligiousMediaDangerWindInstitutionsClimateEducationalFlightComplacencyBlastChristian FaithExclusionEducational Institutions Author:Edmund Clowney
“Powerful groups with anti-Christian worldviews dominate major media and major educational institutions.” ChristianReligiousPowerfulGroupsMediaMajorsInstitutionsEducationalWorldviewAnti ChristianEducational InstitutionsChristian Worldview Author:Marvin Olasky
“The Obama administration already claims the power to wage endless and boundless war, in virtually total secrecy, and without a single meaningful check or constraint. No institution with any power disputes this. To the contrary, the only ones which exert real influence - Congress, the courts, the establishment media, the plutocratic class - clearly favor its continuation and only think about how further to enable it.” ThinkingWarRealClassInfluenceMediaClaimsInstitutionsCourtCongressContraryFavorsMeaningfulEndlessChecksAdministrationEstablishmentDisputesSecrecyConstraintsBoundlessContinuation Author:Glenn Greenwald
“Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.” PeopleNeedsImportantRealCommunityMediaInstitutionsAspirationSuspicionMonasteries Author:Rowan Williams
“The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.” GovernmentLeftMediaHigherCapitalismInstitutionsMeritEnterpriseSlanderFree EnterpriseHigher Learning Author:James Cook
“Right, we've got these institutions of media, these financial institutions, we have the means of distribution, we have the means of production, we have all these markets and maxims in place. How do we alter the consciousness, the fundamental unifying field? How do we influence change on that level to all of the world?” WorldMeanLevelsConsciousnessInfluenceMediaFieldsInstitutionsFundamentalsFinancialProductionsDistributionMaximsUnifyingFinancial Institutions Author:Russell Brand
“But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things.” DoneHomeGovernmentHouseMillionsMediaInstitutionsFoolishConsistentlyLendingHouse Prices Author:Warren Buffett
“The debate corporation is a corporation. It's funded by corporations. It's relayed by media corporations to the public. It's created by the two parties, which are corporations. We should have public presidential debates all over America run by public institutions.” ShouldTwoRunningAmericaPartyMediaShould HaveInstitutionsDebateCorporationsPresidentialPresidential Debate Author:Ralph Nader
“We have to be able track the ways in which fear, for instance, is monopolized by state and media institutions, ways in which fear is actually promoted and distributed as a way of bolstering the need for greater security and militarization.” WayNeedsStatesAbleGreaterSecurityMediaInstitutionsTrackInstance Author:Judith Butler